The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)

    Saudi Aramco, owned by the Saudi Arabian Government, is a fully-integrated, global petroleum enterprise, and a world leader in exploration and producing, refining, distribution, shipping and marketing.

    The company manages proven reserves of 260 billion barrels of oil (a quarter of the world's total), the largest to any company in the world, and manages the fourth-largest gas reserves in the world. Saudi Aramco owns and operates the world's second largest tanker fleet to help transport its crude oil production, which amounted to 3.15 billion barrels in 2004. In addition to its headquarters in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province city of Dhahran, Saudi Aramco has affiliates, joint venture and subsidiary office in China, Egypt, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. Saudi Aramco's chairman of the board of directors is His Excellency Ali I. Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. The company's president and CEO is Abdallah S. Jum'ah.

Web site : www.saudiaramco.com